What do you want to explore through creative writing? Tackle your writing blocks with our creative writing program!
Through workshops, this program offers a “third space” that isn’t formal like a classroom or casual like a coffee shop. It’s a facilitated creative learning experience that is not graded. There’s no teacher and no boss.
This program is facilitated by the Poet in Community, Ronna Bloom. Ronna uses creative writing to explore the interests, passions and needs of students.
Ronna is a writer, registered psychotherapist and author of six books of poetry. Her work has been broadcast on the CBC, recorded by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, translated into Bengali, Chinese and Bangla, and shortlisted for several Canadian literary awards.
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Program Eligibility
Open to all members of the U of T community -
How The Program Works
Workshops are held monthly.
Many of these workshops are designed and facilitated in partnership with specific colleges, departments, and faculties, including Innis College, Trinity College, the School of Graduate Studies, Hart House, Accessibility Services, and the Family Care Office.
Stay up to date with the latest opportunities to participate on any of U of T’s three campuses via the Poet in Community Facebook group.
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What Students Are Saying
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I was feeling stuck when writing a reading response to a work by Jacques Derrida. Derrida is known to be an extremely intimidating philosopher, so I was feeling really under confident about interpreting his work. I considered skipping the poetry workshop that morning to work on the response but went anyway and I’m very glad I did. That day our topic was how to write when feeling stuck. I ended up writing a letter to Derrida explaining my frustrations. It was humorous but somehow it helped me take the whole thing less seriously, and approach the text without reservations. I wrote my response that day and I received a grade I was really happy with.
Safa
We learned a new way of expressing ourselves through poetry and the written word for personal growth. As engineers, we commonly use our analytical skills and rarely our creative linguistic abilities.
Marina
Ronna’s session last year was revolutionary and so vital for many of our students who were suddenly able to see and begin to honour their creative and literary potential relative to their work and vocational calling.
Prof. Joy Fitzgibbon